it was only after he made a number of concessions to a group of house gop holdouts who unilaterally refused to back him. mccarthy secured the votes that he needed after he gave into those concessions. the so-called maga squad included republicans like matt gaetz and lauren boebert. their influence over the party during this whole process became very clear throughout the chaotic events last week. joining us now is molly ball, national political correspondent for time magazine and author of pelosi. a lot of things going on here. when we look at what happened, your take on the speakership debacle and what it means since you wrote on pelosi? what does it mean for the democrats? oh, interesting. well, for the republicans and mccarthy, in the near term, they have to come back tomorrow, monday, and vote on the rules package we could see it fall apart again as soon as a day
that s exactly the right question. i will say as i watch this, you are exactly right. the steps that he is taking are literally on the ground there. his first stop as you saw was at the americas. you can see the painting of el paso behind me. el paso is right there, just a few feet connected by ports of entry including the stop of the president was at. there is an important juxtaposition there. we can see the president trying to introduce comprehensive negation reform. the person standing behind him right there in the white shirt is secretary mayorkas, the first latino ever to hold a position of secretary of the department of homeland security. before that, mayorkas worked under the obama biden administration as the author to put forth the daca, the dreamer protections.
an msnbc political analyst. nichelle, thanks for coming out on the show. how will history judge nancy pelosi? how would you characterize her legacy as a two-time speaker? i mean, i think they will judge her as the most affective house speaker of the modern age. one of the most powerful women ever heard in american politics. and someone who was, kind of, constantly underestimated. because she hadn t, you know, because she was a housewife. before she wanted to go into politics. she was a self effort first person. and had stepped back from a career to raise children. and, given the a moments amount of time attending to her public issue image. there is a story in the biography of pelosi, where she talks about how when congressman jack marta decided to come out against the iraq
for her greatest achievement, well, tens of millions of americans have health care today. thanks to nancy pelosi s tireless fight to pass the affordable care act in 2010. we go through the gates, the gates close. we ll go over the fence. the fence is too high. will pull bold in. if that does it work. well parachute in. but will going to get health care reform passed for the american people. as molly bald notes in her biography of nancy pelosi, the speaker of the caucus had been relentlessly at the time calling dozens of law f makers and asking for their average. she called police leaders in italy to get there on the bill. and pressured a moderate india democrat to get on board. she even attended the annual football game to cheer on and colleague there. all this jockeying paid off, helping to pass obamacare. and ensure more than 30 million americans. in fact, one congressman even
effort with republicans as well. mitch mcconnell, when they were first taken, they were separated by room. and mitch mcconnell is working the phone with his aides stuck in the riot. and he said forget this, crosses the hall, finds democrats, trump isn t going to help us we have to help each other. that s a moment where the republicans spearheaded it. it shows you, we go into much more detail about both parties how there was this opportunity on this day when they were all being attack gd and all victims of what the mob was doing they had this moment. they lost it quickly but it illustrates the tragedy that follows to focus on everybody s issues on january 6th and what was going on. just to add, we looked in the video of pelosi, i mentioned a moment ago where there was a moment on january 6th where her people wanted to impeach trump.